Agenda of the February 1996 Workhop
OPENING REMARKS
Eric Fischer, Board on Biology,
National Research Council
Patenting Research Tools and the Law
Rebecca Eisenberg,
University of Michigan
What Should be Public and What Should be Private in Science and Technology?
Richard Nelson,
Columbia University
Sharing Intellectual Property: Empirical Studies of Scientific Exchange Among Human Genome Researchers
Steven Hilgartner,
Cornell University
CASE STUDY DISCUSSIONS
Recombinant DNA
Moderator: Sidney Winter, Wharton
School of Business
Floyd Grolle, Stanford University
Lita Nelsen, Massachusetts Inst.
Technology
Protein and DNA Sequencing
Moderator: Robert Cook-Deegan,
National Research Council
Leroy Hood, University of Washington
Harry Osterman, LI-CORE, Inc.
Waclaw Szybalski, University of
Wisconsin
Gene Fragments (ESTs)
Moderator: Gerald Rubin,
UC-Berkeley
William Haseltine, Human Genome
Sciences
Thomas Caskey, Merck Research
Laboratories
James Sikela, University of Colorado
PCR and Taq Polymerase
Moderator: Barbara
Mazur, DuPont Nemours Co.
Ellen Daniell, Roche Molecular Systems
Bernie Poiesz, University of Syracuse
Tom Gallegos, Oncorpharm
Research Tools in Drug Discovery
Moderator:
William Comer, SIBIA Inc.
Bennett Shapiro, Merck Research
Laboratories
Larry Respess, Ligand Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.
James Wilson, Inst. for Human Genome
Therapy
Case Study Summaries: Overview of Issues Raised in Case Studies
Janet Joy*, Board on Biology, National Research Council
PERSPECTIVES FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS
What practices have worked well? What have not ?
Moderator:
Ronald Sederoff, North Carolina State University
University
Gerald Rubin, University of California at
Berkeley
Lita Nelsen, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Private Sector
Leon Rosenberg, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Thomas D'Alonzo, Genvec, Inc.
Government
Harold Varmus, National Institutes of
Health
General Discussion
Moderator: Ronald Sederoff
* Gene Block, Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Biology at the University of
Virginia, was originally scheduled to give this presentation but was unable to attend.